Stoughton Police Arrest Pittsfield Woman for Child Endangerment, Drug Possession

arrested a Pittsfield woman for drug possession and child endangerment Wednesday at 4 a.m.

According to the Stoughton Police Facebook page, Officer , on his first shift since completing field training, saw a suspicious running vehicle behind the Mobil Station at the corner of Central and Washington Streets.

Baldner found a female driver, Meagen Heren, 31, of Pittsfield, "slumped over the wheel [with] two small children in the car,” according to Stoughton Police.

The children, a three-year-old boy and two-year-old girl, both belonging to Heren, were found in a “disheveled” state, with food on them and with their diapers filled, Acting Police Chief Robert Devine said.

While checking on the wellbeing of the children and female driver, Baldner came across “numerous drugs and paraphernalia.”

Police recovered crack cocaine, tiboxin, amphetamine salts, methadone, and other drugs, as well as a crack pipe, Devine said.

According to Stoughton Police, Heren was arrested and charged with three different counts of possession of a class B substance, two counts of possession of a class C substance, and possession of a class E substance.

She was also charged with child endangerment.

The two children were remanded to the Department of Children and Families, according to Stoughton Police.

Devine commended the work of Officer Baldner.

“These are the type of cases why we become police officers…to keep children [and other people] safe,” Devine said.